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Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a contributing editor at the The New Republic.

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January 20, 2016
Jeet Heer
Sarah Palin: The Walt Whitman of Wasilla
Donald Trump's new sidekick belongs to a noble American poetic tradition.
January 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
John Wayne would have loved Donald Trump since both men are racists.
January 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Jeb Bush super PAC seems to be run by hipsters who love retro technology.
January 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bully Pulpit
Donald Trump's tribalist brand of Christianity, trumpeted on Monday at Liberty University, is winning votes but dividing the faithful.
January 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
You Say You Want a Revolution, Bernie?
Sanders's theory of political change isn't as plausible as Hillary Clinton's.
January 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bernie Sanders’s core problem is selling his “revolution” as a plausible political approach.
January 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
Bernie Sanders’s fixation on Wall Street prevented him from focusing on systematic racism.
January 18, 2016
Jeet Heer
Democratic voters really like Hillary Clinton, so she should return the favor.
January 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Daily Caller falsely accuses a BuzzFeed journalist of twerking.
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January 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
Apocalypse Now and Then
The Republican fear-mongering rooted in Reagan nostalgia
January 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
The one thing the Republican candidates can agree on is that the world is a scary place.
January 15, 2016
Jeet Heer
As we head into the GOP debate, the primary is starting to resemble the end of Reservoir Dogs.
January 14, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz Will Be a Big Fat Target at Tonight’s Debate
Leading in the polls in Iowa, and reeling from a controversy surrounding his connections to Goldman Sachs, Cruz finds himself in the crosshairs.
January 14, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley is ignorant of the American history that most deeply affected her family.
January 14, 2016
Jeet Heer
Fear of a Canadian Planet
Republican concerns about Ted Cruz's citizenship are part of a long history of apprehension surrounding the Great White North.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Charlie Hebdo continues to satirize racism with racist images.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Nikki Haley’s Two-Front War
In her State of the Union response, Haley had to fight both Barack Obama and Donald Trump.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
President Obama got the history of Sputnik wrong.
January 13, 2016
Jeet Heer
Obama continues to argue that Trumpism is driven by economic insecurity.
January 12, 2016
Jeet Heer
Ted Cruz is playing with fire.

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